NEWTOWN, Conn. -- There has been a significant surge in the use of Solar Titan gas turbines over the past three years as part of combined heat and power systems at U.S. universities. The physical characteristics of campuses are near-ideal for the installation of such combined heat and power systems to power microgrids that make the area independent of outside power supplies.
Titan 130 production averaged about 17 turbines per year in the first decade of its commercial career, and there is no reason to believe that annual production has significantly changed since then. An examination of current order and construction rates suggests that 10 to 13 units are being delivered per year, with occasional spikes beyond that. The primary applications for the Solar Titan are mechanical drive units for oil and gas projects and offshore platforms.
There is potential for a major increase in sales as a result of the upsurge in natural gas production in the United States. This has resulted in a matching upsurge in pipeline construction with the related demand for gas turbines to equip compressor stations. The Solar Turbines range of products appears to be benefitting from this development, the Titan 130s in particular. Also, an increasing number of Titan 250s are going to this market.
The big unknown here is the number of machines that have been sold as mobile generating systems. Overall, the Titan 130 has a market niche into which it seems well-settled. The Titan 250 has a less certain future, since it seems to be in a power niche that is under severe pressure from gas turbines of both higher and lower outputs.
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